Editorial: Flexibility is good for borough budget

The borough is required to set the property tax rate for the next budget year that starts today, which it did. The rate will not change.

And the borough is required to adopt a budget to guide its spending over the year, which it did, pretty much the same total for public services as this past year.

But within that total, some of the individual numbers will change over the next 12 months, which is OK.

There were too many unknowns, too many variables when the assembly approved the budget last month to expect that changes will not occur.

The borough is still waiting for audit results to confirm s...

 

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